but the rest of the listening post on al-jazeera. be the hero in the world it's right. washington. the greatest crisis had a very predicts a grim future for the aviation industry as the european aerospace firm suffers a big 1st quarter loss saudi arabia's oil revenues 24 percent in the same time period as the pandemic drains global to mount. pleasant harbor one come all santa maria with the world news from al jazeera. second night of rioting in lebanon as

a currency crash pushes its economy to the brink. this new in may president. police in the philippines are accused of abusing human rights as they enforce strict coronavirus measures. so the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic are being felt in many parts of the global economy aviation and oil in particular and they are hitting the big players has already said it's bleeding cash at an unprecedented speed and announced it would cut production by a 3rd now it's posted a 1st quarter loss of half a $1000000000.00 the chief executive of the european aerospace company is warning this is the greatest crisis the industry has ever known its u.s. rival boeing's already announced plans to cut $7000.00 jobs with its chief executive predicting global airline revenues could drop by more than 300000000000

dollars this year and the industry will take years to recover and in the u.k. british airways is set to shed up to $12000.00 jobs about a 3rd of its workforce the airline has suspended 96 percent of its passenger flights for april and may. sometime ballantine who is associate editor in chief correspondent of the industry magazine orient aviation he told us unfortunately the situations only going to get us. the fact is there is a craft there are 90 percent of the world's fleet are sitting on the ground and the last thing airlines want at the moment is to take delivery of more seats that they'll have to park i know the airlines around the world are currently right now in discussion with both airbus and boeing. looking at not only not only cancellations but certainly many to fear all of their deliveries because they simply don't want to hear graphite now we all know now that there's a recovery when it comes it's not going to be a sharp v.

shaped recovery is going to be a long u. shaped recovery and it's going to be a long time before the air transport network is good to be back where it was before the crisis that we're talking about the iraq to 2 years so that's not a long time career wise to hold out for the plane makers to hold out there certainly need all the help they can from governments from their investors and these governments and there's are also facing economic problems are facing recession shortages of casual around sochi going to be a long time before the industry has any chance of returning to what is going to be normal but some sort of normal saudi arabia's oil revenues meanwhile are fallen 24 percent since the start of the year the world's largest oil export has suffered a deficit of $9000000000.00 in the 1st quarter demand has collapsed and storage units are nearly full and business and stay shut because of the pandemic opec and

other producers have already agreed to cut production by almost 10 percent for the next 2 months to try to bring prices back up. but there's more bad news as well from riyadh some u.s. politicians are calling on u.s. president donald trump to stop imports of saudi crude oil according to the industry website a tanker truck and 50000000 barrels of saudi crude are on their way to the united states marine traffic shows at least $24.00 tank is heading around southern africa are apparently bound for terminals in the gulf of mexico that means delivery into refineries and storage in texas and louisiana but with oil prices sinking to record lows that's a threat to us produces hence these politicians in washington want the vessel's turned around it's. not a hurry the founder and c.e.o. of and their insights company providing global oil market analysis who tell us this will be a tough year for the saudi government all of this oil is what had been produced when saudi arabia stepped up was producing full tilt after the march 6th grade down

at the opec nano they collide and sent all that incident well same course starting starting in may it's probably too late to call it bad those tankers how some people suggested that perhaps saudi arabia would just use last time because as as floating storage but the other point of view is that a lot of this oil is already sold so it's not the ownership or it's but us or find us that has to come ashore and you know that could be another factor that is especially been hammering w t i prices much more in recent weeks relative to brant because the us is just absolutely overthrowing the storage chartist situation especially acute. demand mind more whiny is the fact that huge chill is probably going to look well

and you know the rest of the year is not looking too good either so the saudi government is going to be in a very talks part probably raise more money more into its results but you know going for it it's not a very good situation to be in because you are just becoming increasingly more indebted whether you are that the government or the so are saudi aramco. again a 2nd night of protests in lebanon's golden city of tripoli demonstrators set fire to a bank and security forces there responded with tear gas and rubber bullets the protests are growing as the crosses state economy crumbles further because of the corona virus outbreak monday one protester was killed during the blitz in lebanese capital beirut tells us the government has failed to produce any sort of economic rescue package. the state this close to bankruptcy this country spends more than it earns there's a huge step in for the 1st time in lebanon history defaulted on the debt now that

there was a leaked document which really caused a riot because the government looked at the thinking of touching people's deposits in the banks and of course there are informal capital controls now you cannot access your savings and the banks said they were going to touch these deposits to fund the state there was an outcry even politicians raised the concerns because the prime minister said 2 percent of the deposits will be will be touched and those 2 percent are the bank accounts of politicians and and their cronies accounts in the millions and billions of dollars so this doesn't seem to be an option a few weeks ago the prime minister and the president they invited the international support group for ambassadors from western nations arab nations and they appealed for financial assistance they told them please unlock the funds billions of dollars in aid that you promised us in the past and the out so really has been we are not

being aid and we're not bailing lebanon out unless there are structural in economic reforms politicians are reluctant to do that because if you do that they lose control of other states resources which they've been accused of using for political gain so the only option seems to be going to the international monetary fund and again politicians are reluctant to do that for 2 reasons 1st of all the austerity measures will hurt the poor and the austerity measures will hurt the politicians. china's annual national people's congress which was delayed by 2 months because the democrat will be held on may 22nd 3 weeks away around 3000 delegates from across china will gather in beijing to pass legislation and to unveil key economic targets for the year it's an event that last around 10 days and is one of china's most important political meetings circuits in hong kong with more on china's decision to go ahead with the meeting that was sure to go ahead back in march the 5th or much the 5th and the government back in february made the decision to postpone or delay

that particular gathering simply because we're at the peak of the crowd a virus outbreak at that particular time and a number of these legislative. and the government delegations they were deployed on the front line to try and contain or fight the virus at that particular time now we've got 3000 national legislators who will attend this gathering in beijing on may 22 but we also have a huge number of staff and delegations that will join those legislators and that's what about 5000 people now clearly the meeting is being allowed to go ahead because china's number of crowd of us cases has been falling and in beijing we've had no local cases for the last 36 consecutive days and this is simply to the capital imposing some tough quarantine restrictions those traveling to the capital we're talking about domestic travelers those coming from anywhere across china into beijing must go into 14 days of coroutine and anyone coming to beijing from will hand from overseas it's a $21.00 day quarantine scenario that the government is also imposed some new social etiquette rules which they'll introduce on june the 1st and they include

when in public everyone must cover their mouth when sneezing there's been no eating on public transport and masks must be borne by anyone in public if you're sick but clearly this announcement on wednesday that the national people's congress meeting will go ahead on may 22 is a sign that china's trying to send to the rest of the world that life is returning to normal. human rights activists say the philippines government's strict enforcement of lockdowns as lead to serious violations by police the u.n. describes the country's response as highly militarized german island organ reports now from manila. these were the last few moments of winston ragas his life before he was shot dead by police they say the former soldier refused to follow their orders and was threatening to shoot them so they fired detained. twice. but witnesses deny this they say he posed no threat to anyone in the

movies who spoke to its family says ruggles was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and this death is a huge loss for them and. he was very thoughtful especially to his nieces and nephews here remember there were birthdays and he was a very generous man. other videos that critics say show excessive use of force by police have gone viral to. the. president in this one a police officer forcefully tries to arrest a foreign national jury a dispute over quarantine measures imposed by the government. and here another officer appears to break into a private condominium before threatening to arrest people using areas like a swimming pool the philippine government displays around $50000000.00 people under lockdown across the region designed to clamp down on the spread of the coronavirus

that's nearly half of the country's population just a few weeks ago president rodrigo to tear 2 or there de mille achieve and police to shoot dead anyone who creates trouble. police have denied allegations of wrongdoing and say they have arrested more than 100000 people since the lockdown was implemented. more than a month ago human rights watch has issued a statement urging the government to investigate reports of abuses and hold officers have committed rights violations accountable. i mean it's really been subjected to very harsh regulations were built regard the realities of basic to asia. and that story's going to result in a lot. anger and frustration and. the government says its policies are necessary to fight the spread of the coronavirus but people here tell us the use of

what they say easy heavy handed and violent response by police is creating fear and anxiety. dog and al jazeera mandela. in the news ahead extreme measures in el salvador this prison as the president orders a crackdown after an outbreak of violence and a giant asteroid is due to hurtle past in the next few hours. hello welcome to another look at the international focus of called more those seasonal showers across the southeast asia not too bad into indonesia here it is lousy driving say the west to weather a little further north than malaysia will see some lively showers pushing into southern parts of the philippines as we go through thursday and on into friday

a chance of some showers to southern end of india china pushing into thailand along the peninsula we'll see some rather heavy showers from time to time into some montra a maybe the share with the into java we got a dry weather across a good part of australia but into the southeast where we do have these 2 bands of cloud and the rain sweeping through cool direct sucking in behind temperatures will struggle to get around 13 celsius in melbourne heavy rain they useful rain pushing through new south wales i will grassy make its way into sydney as we go on through with stay come friday it brightens up 16 celsius and all the cold sidle freshen up as well as that cloud race sweeps across the fall southeast through tasmania it will eventually push over towards new zealand it is fun its life and is headed for the time being but as we go on through the weekend we will see increasing that wet and windy weather poly in particular for southern parts of the country.

but. the time had come for the p.l.o. to seek a new and peaceful solution. pursuing a path of diplomacy but what was to turn their agreed with draw from lebanon into one of the most horrific civilian massacres of modern times women children killed we couldn't believe our eyes chronicling the turbulent story of the struggle for a palestinian homeland p.l.o. history of a revolution on al-jazeera. he with al jazeera these are the top stories this hour reporter the 1st quarter loss

of half a $1000000000.00 the chief executive of the european aerospace company is warning the coronavirus pandemic is the greatest crisis the industry has ever known. him a saudi arabia's oil revenues have also fallen they down 24 percent since the start of the year the world's largest oil exporter had a $9000000000.00 budget deficit in the 1st quarter as demand for energy collapsed. and protesters and security forces have fought for a 2nd night in lebanon's northern city of tripoli frustration is growing over the corona virus a sorry the crisis hit economy which has worsened during the coronavirus and there . now the united states reported its 1st coronavirus death less than 3 months ago now the number of deaths there from covered 19 is past that of the american soldiers killed in the vietnam war 58000 died in the near 2 decade conflict and as you see in the johns hopkins university track and now the number of white 58355 deaths with more than 1000000 people infected most of them in the big cities along

the east coast. which of course includes new york the epicenter for what i believe is on the report's. record native fly over by u.s. air force and navy planes over new york city a display of gratitude for health care workers and 1st responders here in what is the epicenter of the u.s. krone by risk crisis a crisis that has put more than 20000000 americans out of work in only one month and at one point had more than 300000000 americans under stay at home warders transforming even the busiest cities like new york into ghost towns the crisis has now hit a new milestone over 1000000 cases in the u.s. president trump is accused of being slow to take over 1000 seriously in late january when the 1st cases were in the u.s. he said it was under control and repeated similar sentiments for many weeks the

risk to the american people remains very low fast forward 2 months and that forecast has proven to be spectacularly wrong as a country and economy shutdown trump and america as a whole were forced to face the stark reality there were numerous missed opportunities in the long term investing in public out the budgets for public health in significantly decreased over the years and this would only way public. has really needed in our ability to respond in the more short term while most of those 1000000 confirmed cases in the u.s. have been relatively mild many thousands more have not more than 50000 lives have been lost to cope at 19 and many thousands more are expected on tuesday trump was asked about his earlier predictions in the light of the new milestone will go down

to 0 ultimately and you have to understand when it comes to cases we do much more testing than anybody else. so we could go to some of these other countries you know as an example china if you test you're going to show many more cases the united states and particularly new york are a long way from being over this health crisis and with persistent worries about large gatherings the streets could remain mostly empty through the end of the year leaving time for people to ponder questions such as when will this be over what will america be like when it is and what went wrong. gabriel is on doe al-jazeera new york. the president has ordered meat processing plants to stay open despite concerns about workers' safety production was stopped in iran 20 of the country's factories often workers fell ill but responding to warnings of a global meat shortage signed an executive order to reopen the plants they want to give companies legal cover in case employees catch the virus unions are criticizing

the decision saying it puts employees at risk mike hanna is in washington d.c. he says this executive order actually puts workers in a dilemma. it is on the face of it an order to go back to work but what it is most importantly about is to grant the employers some form of legal and liability present and troublemaking very clear earlier in the day that the employers are in a situation where they could be sued by their employees forcing them to go back to work in a situation where they could contract the virus part of this executive order is absolving the employers of any legal blame for what happens but the bottom line is that was done in consultation with the meat packing companies it was a major supply crisis in terms of supplies coming through massive drops in the production of pork and beef so although on the face of it the order is meant they

turi it is still very much in association with the companies themselves and of course the employees have to decide whether to continue their jobs to go back to work and run the risk of a virus or not go to work and quite possibly lose their jobs or very clear dial lever for those working in the meat packing plants which have of course been a focal point of many viral outbreaks in recent weeks at least if the teen plants had closed across the country because of the high rate of infection in the plants now you've got a situation where the president signed an executive order which strictly speaking is mandate 3 the plants have to reopen brazil's president says he can't work miracles to prevent coronavirus deaths and are dismissed questions about brazil's covert 19 cases now surpassing china's infections the president had earlier described coronavirus as a little flu he's called for businesses to open even if it allows the contagion to

spread brazil's reported more than 5000 deaths and over 73000 infections. sorry i'm sorry what do you want me to do i am a sinner but i don't do miracles. in el salvador the president has launched a crackdown on gang members in its prisons and that was after the country saw its highest single day on the side on friday with 22 people killed prison officials say inmates are using the pandemic to cover their crimes and human rights activists claim president nyberg tactics are to follow the same john homa. extreme measures in the. ceiling of cell so that gang members can't make contact with the outside world no. no ray of sunlight will lend them to sell we're going to look at all lines of sight so that they cannot have any type of communication. authorities say that many hits in the violence play country from jail in prison

gang leaders have taken advantage of the covert pandemic told to move killings. last week and dozens of people were murdered after a period of relative calm in response to 30 stripped him 8 impact them together in a 24 hour lockdown. after that members of the warring gangs were mixed together and so was part of the new plan to break the communication lines. before they've been separated to avoid prison riots. it's all come from the top president. on monday he tweeted we're going to make sure the gang members who committed these murders regret it for the rest of their lives he's also said security forces can now use lethal force against gang members on the streets human rights groups have denounced images is inhumane and authoritarian reminding the also recently marched into congress with soldiers to get a security bill passed but many in el salvador think differently gangs have controlled entire neighborhoods in the country for decades extorting raping and

killing it will really be lascaux going to transport company told us they've murdered more than a 1000 people in his sector and squeeze almost 20000000. as a year from operators. this is what every government needs to do criminal groups in the population is stopping the country's economy from developing the least it can do is take a line and establish they can't look the other way. and president remains extremely popular for now it seems many poor stones join home and. as the world focuses on the pandemic the un's departing rights envoy for me and mass as attacks against civilians in rakhine state have been increasing and may amount to war crimes forces of conducting their own military artillery strikes or in recent weeks. civilians that were targeted special previously accused.

me of genocide against the rohingya and 700000 fighter crackdown and $27.00 team the government an army of consistently denied. or has learned that the united nations and the international committee of the red cross have brought forward plans for a mass prisoner exchange in yemen the swap could take place in days as part of a ceasefire proposed by the un special envoy but a 1000 prisoners would be expected in the 1st batch of diplomatic editor james bays has this exclusive report. a mass prisoner exchange was 1st proposed in the stockholm agreement in december 28th all sides agreed to the idea but it never actually happened now it's being revived as part of a peace plan proposed by the un special envoy martin griffiths he said he believed that plan was close to fruition when he spoke to the un security council last week he didn't reveal that arrangements that now advanced for

a prisoner exchange to be organized by the un and by the international committee of the red cross we were asked to organize a release during this endemic of it and we had to balance the interests that you made there in the trust of the people detain the fact that they could go back or and see their family after years of detention and the risk we were taking as you made town operate there is to factor those so the risk of the day needs to be in fact so balancing those interests we decided that we would go for it you seem to have everything in place what needs to happen for this exchange to take place. i would say that almost everything is in place. to me oh it's a final alignment of the tree parties involved in their release.

the government of said it would be arabia etc and the government of yemen. we are there we still need a couple of days to be ready but we need this this this button to be pushed and for this we need an alignment and just to be clear on the timeline you mentioned a couple of days this could happen within days potentially but then yes u.n. sources tell me the actual prisoners for the 1st stage of a transfer have been identified there are about 1000 of them. now here's the kind of news you need a large asteroid is heading towards earth in the coming hours but astronomers say the space for it won't be colliding with our planet it will however get close enough for scientists to study it and it can make a report from florida. when a small asteroid broke up over siberia in 2013 the ensuing shockwave injured over

a 1000 people and caused extensive damage it was a reminder to space agencies across the world of the dangers asteroids can pose the asteroid now heading our way is being classified as a potentially hazardous object scientists say $99080.00 or 2 is not a threat it's traveling at 30000 kilometers an hour and is at least 2 kilometers wide will pass by at a distance of 6000000 kilometers don't have to deal with it with fear we have to deal with it with the science so people should not be afraid of asteroids people should be our earth to assess the risk of these assaults and to follow the. research program and most importantly to maintain these asteroid research program. programs like masses double asteroid redirection test or don't program aim to tackle potential threats in the future it's one of many programs around the world that not only track largest royds but have potential solutions to redirect them the

areas cboe observatory in puerto rico is one of the facilities that tracks asteroids using sophisticated radar scientists here are already tracking the apostasy asteroid due to skirt the earth in 2029 ahead of planetary radar says their research is vital without the quote there really are summations or or very expensive. we would actually. very. good years when it's been 9 so now we know that we don't have to do it that they're really going to use those resources for something else this latest asteroid has been tracked for the past 2 decades and for amateur and professional astronomers alike it's been greeted with excitement and not fear nasa scientists say they've tracked more than 90 percent of near earth objects that pose a global threat thankfully 998 or 2 isn't one of them but it will be close enough to watch on a telescope like this in terms of the visual universe this is a close shave but a celestial event that will be seen as

a slow moving star and gallacher al-jazeera miami florida it's funny the india act of one come has died after having cancer the 53 year old began his career in indian television and bollywood films but made the crossover to hollywood as well and starred in movies such as life of pi park and some dog millionaire. these are the top stories reported a 1st quarter loss of half a $1000000000.00 the chief executive of the european aerospace company. the coronavirus pandemic is the greatest crisis the industry has ever known $130000.00 workers worldwide have already been warned to expect job cuts if the companies to survive on saudi arabia's oil revenues a full 24 percent during the pandemic the kingdom is the world's largest oil

exporter it has now slipped into a $9000000000.00 budget deficit in the 1st quarter protesters and security forces of fought for a 2nd night in lebanon's known city of tripoli frustrations growing over the crisis hit economy which is worse than during the pandemic has more from beirut. it's all about reforms if you reform the public sector you trim the public sector because according to international financial institutions there's a lot of waste in the state the public sector and that means politicians can no longer appoint their supporters in the government so it's a very difficult situation for the government at this point in time is out of. anger and desperation is only growing as the value of people. losing its value losing its perch. he was president donald trump has ordered meat processing plants to stay open despite concerns over workers' safety production was stopped in around 20 of the country's factories after many workers fell ill responding to warnings of

a global shortage however trump signed an executive order to reopen the plants the order gives companies legal cover in case employees catch coronavirus unions or criticize the president's decision saying it puts employees at risk. and the un's departing rights envoy for me and says attacks against civilians in rakhine state have been increasing and may amount to war crimes forces have conducted air and artillery strikes in recent weeks yet he laces civilians were targeted strikes the outgoing special rapporteur has previously accused me of genocide against the range of people when 700000 of them fled a crackdown in 2017 i mean my government and me have consistently denied those accusations sammy has the news hour in about 25 minutes time history of a revolution is next. to me as the sun goes down the shouting russia is a very challenging place to work probably i think on

a limb even though the authorities here say you can't do it it's not allowed to build always pushing boundaries probably not from moscow we've gone through a lot of people are being taken from peacefully my new legislation that we are grappling the act a mile away all the media don't go we go there and we give them a chance to tell their story. 148 the state of israel was proclaimed. palestine was lost. 16 years later in 1964 the palestine liberation organization or the p.l.o. was founded. made up of different factions the p.l.o. has been at the heart of the struggle to regain palestine ever since.